Laurence OvermireFreedom is an idea that no tyrant will ever crush.
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Freedom is an idea that no tyrant will ever crush. If you want to be free, remember the words of the great politician and soldier William Jennings Bryan who said, “Freedom is not a gift from government. It belongs to each one of us in the privacy of our own hearts.”
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